By K Thor Jensen, IFC
With Full Metal Jacket hitting the IFC tube tonight, it brought on some pretty brutal flashbacks of our time in the ‘Nam. Wait, no – these are flashbacks that fictional characters had. They’re still pretty brutal, though.
Screenshot from Full Metal Jacket
1. Meet The Feebles
Meet The Feebles movie poster
Before Peter Jackson was the go-to guy for Middle Earth, he made this demented puppet gore film where a deranged drug-addicted frog got dragged back to the horrors of jungle warfare.
2. Black Dynamite
Black Dynamite movie poster
Hilarious Blaxploitation spoof Black Dynamite boasts a dramatically narrated ‘Nam flashback that’s absolutely absurd.
3. Jacob’s Ladder
Jacob’s Ladder movie poster
One of the few films that uses Vietnam flashbacks as its main plot motivator, 1990 suspense flick Jacob’s Ladder amped up the surreal nature of war and how it affects the brain.
Read the full article by K Thor Jensen from IFC.